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1-Year Writing Challenge: Five Months in

Mathias Barra
3 min readJun 3, 2019

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There goes one more month.

There have been so many things happen this month, both personally and professionally, but I now find myself rather proud of how it all turned out.

But enough wobbling, let’s dive right into things.

1. Positive Aspects

The very first positive aspect is not entirely related to writing in itself and yet, it holds a very important meaning for me: I finally found the courage to officially share on Facebook the existence of my blog.

As someone who used to care maybe too much about others’ opinions, I found it difficult to risk negative comments from people I personally know. I am well aware of the importance of accepting one’s own flaws and learn to deal with them, so I dove in and let everybody know. I had a surprisingly positive response to it and am grateful for it.

I also believe I have structured my articles much better this month, thus increasing easiness to read those. I spent more time thinking about how to structure these articles preemptively, thus not only simplifying the writing experience itself but also giving me the opportunity to dig deeper on some sub-categories. In that regard, my article last Tuesday about 5 ways to use textbooks seems to be a perfect example (on top of being the longest post I…

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Mathias Barra
Mathias Barra

Written by Mathias Barra

French polyglot speaking 6 languages. Writer. Helping you learn languages. Get my new ebook → https://linktr.ee/MathiasBarra

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